Erich Pommer

Erich Pommer (1889 – 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. He was a genius producer and businessman on both sides of the Atlantic, Erich Pommer was the driving force of fifty years of German film history. He was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era as the head of production at Ufa from 1924 to 1926 responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Mikaël (1924), Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (1924), Variety (1925), Tartuffe (1926), Faust (1926), Metropolis (1927) and The Blue Angel (1930). He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany for a time after the war. —Kino International